Ergonomics Service Learning Project: Implementing an Alternative Educational Method in an Industrial Engineering Undergraduate Ergonomics Course

dc.contributor.authorPage, Lenore T.
dc.contributor.authorStanley, Laura M.
dc.date.accessioned2015-03-26T21:10:14Z
dc.date.available2015-03-26T21:10:14Z
dc.date.issued2014-07
dc.description.abstractThe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) and the Engineer of 2020, an engineering education initiative, have recommended that engineering students be provided with opportunities to participate in real-world projects to supply them with the skills they will need in the workplace. Service learning is a pedagogical approach where students apply skills they learn in a classroom to a real-world problem identified by a community organization. In 2009, a service learning project was introduced in an undergraduate Ergonomics Industrial Engineering course composed of engineering and nonengineering students at Montana State University (MSU). Its integration and development in the existing course required creating a detailed project description and finding a partner organization. Students worked with clients or staff at the partner organization to develop ergonomic solutions for workplace health and safety issues and manufacturing productivity. At the end-of-semester presentations, the community partners, instructor, and other students assessed each solution's effectiveness. These assessments found that students, compared to the partner's feedback, undervalued their prototypes with regard to how they improved worker and process efficiency, and they overvalued their solution's creativity, cost, and implementation feasibility. In addition, the service learning course's technical and professional skills ranked above the average ABET course outcomes of MSU's Industrial Engineering fall courses. This demonstrates how the service learning project and the intended goals from ABET and Engineer 2020 come together—service learning exposes students to real-world situations that better prepare and inform them of the skills that will be needed after graduation.en_US
dc.identifier.citationPage, Lenore T., and Laura M. Stanley. "Ergonomics Service Learning Project: Implementing an Alternative Educational Method in an Industrial Engineering Undergraduate Ergonomics Course." Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing & Service Industries 24, no. 5 (2014): 544-556. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hfm.20544en_US
dc.identifier.issn1090-8471
dc.identifier.urihttps://scholarworks.montana.edu/handle/1/8956
dc.subjectIndustrial engineeringen_US
dc.subjectErgonomicsen_US
dc.subjectEducationen_US
dc.titleErgonomics Service Learning Project: Implementing an Alternative Educational Method in an Industrial Engineering Undergraduate Ergonomics Courseen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
mus.citation.extentfirstpage544en_US
mus.citation.extentlastpage556en_US
mus.citation.issue5en_US
mus.citation.journaltitleHuman Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing & Service Industriesen_US
mus.citation.volume24en_US
mus.contributor.orcidStanley, Laura M.|0000-0002-6680-7136en_US
mus.identifier.categoryEngineering & Computer Scienceen_US
mus.identifier.doi10.1002/hfm.20544en_US
mus.relation.collegeCollege of Engineeringen_US
mus.relation.collegeCollege of Engineering
mus.relation.departmentMechanical & Industrial Engineering.en_US
mus.relation.universityMontana State University - Bozemanen_US

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